Example sentences of "[art] couple [prep] [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a couple of scenes when David would just go on and on asking me what I was doing with Michael , ’ she says . |
| 2 | No , I 'll put me trust in strong peppermints while I can , and hope Doctor Lovell can spare a couple of minutes when I 'm real hard-pressed . |
| 3 | After just a couple of minutes when the spray had dried , we brushed out the curls into these beautifully smooth , sculpted waves . |
| 4 | Would you care to accompany me now or follow in a couple of minutes when you have finished your conversation ? ’ |
| 5 | The majority of cases with sustained coverage involved young girls ( including a couple of cases where the victim was under 10 ) who were usually alone and the focus of a single attack . |
| 6 | ‘ David had been involved with a couple of things in the past , producing a couple of B-sides when I was in Quiver — we actually used his home studio for demos . |
| 7 | Other facilities include a couple of stuberls where local people linger over beers and deep conversations , and next door is the popular Dorfkeller bar . |
| 8 | That 's why I make sure I 've got a couple of hours where I 'm really with her almost exclusively overlap too easy otherwise . |
| 9 | ‘ In all my years of motor racing , I can only think of a couple of times when I mastered the machine as at the Nürburgring in 1968 . |
| 10 | In fact , I 've been bloody stupid at times , playing a couple of times when I should n't have . |
| 11 | Their contents had usually turned out to be machine parts but there had been a couple of times when he had found something a little more palatable — once a case of French Burgundy , on another occasion a case of German hock . |
| 12 | ‘ I went out with him a couple of times when I was at the Sorbonne . ’ |
| 13 | Chuck noticed that instead of drinking the usual cold tea like the others he surreptitiously raised a hip flask to his lips a couple of times when he thought he was unobserved . |
| 14 | Er there were a couple of times when the police were called and actually turned up , and and what people believed would have been a minor fight , then developed into a you know a major skirmish . |
| 15 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 16 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 17 | I mean I remember when I went , first went to my cheap caravan site where there is n't a toilet and you have to walk to the toilets , and I remember a couple of times when I was little , shitting my pants on the way to the toilets , you know , cos I could n't hold it in . |
| 18 | While they had been talking , there had been a couple of moments when he had n't looked in the least civilised ! |
| 19 | You can bloody well treat me to a couple of Cokes when the shops open . ’ |
| 20 | With a little cry of distress she turned to flee from the room , but got no further than a couple of steps when Luke caught her . |
| 21 | And you saw the marks only for a couple of seconds when he lifted his palms to receive the Host . |
| 22 | He could have been the greatest horse in the country , he beat Hugo Simon and Gladstone by a couple of seconds when we won the World Cup in Amsterdam . |
| 23 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 24 | The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you dare ! ’ she squealed , trying to push him off the edge of the sun-lounger and into the swimming-pool , which was how the accident yesterday had happened , fooling around by the poolside like a couple of kids when Ruth had slipped on a supposedly non-slip surface and wrenched her ankle . |
| 26 | After a couple of nights when he had difficulty in getting to sleep , Charles had slept well . |
| 27 | Consequently she was having her first decent sleep in a couple of nights when her alarm clock went off the next morning . |
| 28 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 29 | Uk Brother owners please note — the next time you phone Manchester , be thankful that there is someone to answer your problem , even if it may occasionally take a couple of days when all the staff are at a show . |
| 30 | Well , you 'll have a chance in a couple of days when it 's done again . |